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What started as an older man’s joke about wanting to adopt a five-year-old instead of starting from scratch, Instant Family was inspired by writer and director Sean Anders’ real-life family. Pete (Mark Wahlberg) “accidentally” makes the joke to his wife Ellie (Rose Byrne) not wanting to be become that “old dad” everyone knows and before you know it, the two are traveling down to road toward foster care adoptions. After numerous classes taught by two caseworkers (Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro), the two meet three kids at a “foster fair” gathering. Lizzy (Isabela Moner) is the 15-year-old older sister who has protectively looked after her younger siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz) while their mother has been incarcerated. She’s a tough cookie with trust issues. Juan is both accident prone and highly sensitive and Lita is super sweet as long as she gets to eat potato chips at every meal. Almost overnight they become an “instant family” and everything g…

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Win a Gift Card to Half Price Books

September is National Literacy Month and Half Price Books is
offering an incentive to read and become “lit-fit” during the month. For every
person who pledges to read throughout the month of September (and there doesn’t
appear to by a minimum amount), HPB will donate $1 to literacy organizations in
various communities capping off at $30,000. In addition, HPB will be giving
away $10 gift cards to their stores to random winners throughout the month of
September. To see which organizations HPB will be donating to, follow the link
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So, all you need to do is follow this link, pledge your lit
fitness goal and enter to win. (Deadline to enter is Monday, September 30, 2014
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MUSICOn September 19, Buzzfeed released an interview with Lisa Gungor promoting her book, The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen. Not only was the title of the video incorrect (“I Stopped Believing in God After Pastoring a Megachurch”) but the short film was edited in such a way as to lead fans to believe that she and her husband were no longer Christians. As expected, the video went viral and as of today has over 1,230,000 views. Concerned Christians, like myself, posted the video on our websites adding to the misinformation and for that I am sorry to add to the confusion.

On September 20, Lisa Gungor posted a correction to the video on Instagram, however, I did not know that it existed until today. In her post, Lisa explains what wasn’t said in the video. She says that she is still thankful that Buzzfeed did the story and even says that while the title bothered her, it apparently only bothered “a few” fans as well, which frankly, I feel is bothersome. Even so, I have to say that I’ve ne…

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In March 2016, I had the chance to meet Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Kira Lehtomaki who grew up in Edmonds, Washington, not far from my hometown. She was in town for a press tour promoting Zootopia for which she served as an animation supervisor for the character Judy Hopps. She’s one of those people who truly wished upon a star and saw her dream come true. At a very early age, Kira knew that she wanted to become an animator for Disney and today, she’s living that dream.

Recently, I caught up with Lehtomaki again to discuss her time working on Ralph Breaks the Internet (which comes to theaters on November 21) where she served as one of the heads of animation. Although she has previously worked on Bolt, Frozen, Tangled and the first Wreck-It Ralph movies, this was her first time serving as a co-head of animation alongside Renato Dos Anjos. Instead of supervising just one character, she and Renato oversaw the film’s entire animation team making sure that directors Ph…